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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 17, 1861

The same week that Confederate president Jefferson Davis decrees that churches and individuals in the Confederacy observe a day of fasting and prayer, North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder newspaper prints a letter to the editor warning about entangling church and Confederacy. Entitled “Appointing Chaplains by the Civil Authority,” the letter-writer declares: “No subject more intimately…